File Code: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes
- Sponsored By:
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Delegates Poole, Donoghue, and McKee
- Entitled:
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Police Dogs - Liability for Harm
Making a person liable for the purchase, care, and training costs of a
replacement police dog if the person, while in the act of committing a
crime for which the person is later convicted, kills, maims, or
otherwise harms a police dog used by a law enforcement agency so as to
force the police dog out of service.
House Action
- 2/17
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/25
- Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/24
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate D. Bruce Poole, District 2B
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Robert A. McKee, District 2A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ANIMALS -see also- BIRDS; HUNTING; TRAPPING
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPT. OF
- LIABILITY -see also- GOOD SAMARITAN
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
59B
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)